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- # Galaxy catalog for Celestia
-
- "Milky Way"
- {
- Type "SBa"
- RA 17.75
- Dec -28.93
- Distance 28000
- Radius 50000
- Axis [ 0.712 0.533 0.456 ]
- Angle 149
- }
-
- # Large Magellanic Cloud /
- "LMC"
- {
- Type "Irr"
- RA 5.328
- Dec -68.95
- Distance 179000
- Radius 15000
- Detail 0.5
- }
-
- # Small Magellanic Cloud / NGC 292
- "SMC"
- {
- Type "Irr"
- RA 0.862
- Dec -73.23
- Distance 210000
- Radius 12000
- Axis [ 1 0 0 ]
- Angle 100
- Detail 0.5
- }
-
- # Andromeda / NGC 224
- "M31"
- {
- Type "Sb"
- RA 0.712
- Dec 41.27
- Distance 2.9e6
- Radius 75000
- Axis [ -0.596 -0.191 0.780 ]
- Angle 195
- }
-
- # Triangulum spiral / NGC 598
- "M33"
- {
- Type "Sb"
- RA 1.565
- Dec 30.65
- Distance 3e6
- Radius 30000
- }
-
- # NGC 205, satellite of M31
- "M110"
- {
- Type "E5"
- RA 0.6883
- Dec 41.683
- Distance 2.9e6
- Radius 8500
- Detail 0.5
- }
-
- # NGC 221, satellite of M31
- "M32"
- {
- Type "E2"
- RA 0.712
- Dec 40.867
- Distance 2.9e6
- Radius 4000
- Detail 0.5
- }
-
- # M82 / NGC 3031
- # Distance estimate based on Hipparcos results and HST
- # observations of Cepheid variables.
- "M82"
- {
- Type "Sb"
- RA 9.9267
- Dec 69.067
- Distance 1.2e7
- Radius 35000
- }
-